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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by NavinF on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:27PM (#30861605)
It’s “basically solved” in the sense that everyone gave up on distributed OSes and used k8s instead.
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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by zozbot234 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:42PM (#30861741)
K8s is doing distributed OS's on easy mode, supporting basically ephemeral 'webscale' workloads for pure horizontal scaling. Even then it introduces legendary amounts of non-essential complexity in pursuit of this goal. It gets used because "Worse is better" is a thing, not because anyone thinks it's an unusually effective way to address these problems.
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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by pjmlp on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:43AM (#30865395)
I see K8S as Application Servers for everyone, with containers replacing EARs, it certainly gets some WebLogic/WebSphere vibes when looking at those yml files and how we used to setup an Application Server cluster.
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Re:Your computer is a distributed system by marcosdumay on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:24PM (#30872367)
K8s just pushes the problem into the application layer, where every developer must solve it independently. It's not like it solves anything.
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